Striking Quotes

328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants,… — Jan Gehl
The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is… — Renee Fleming
As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which… — Barack Obama
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of… — Randall Kennedy
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree… — E F Schumacher
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. — Murray Rothbard
When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching… — Charles Spurgeon
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires… — Atul Gawande
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell
It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the… — Elias Canetti
People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own… — Unknown Author
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. — Thomas Nagel
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. — Leopold von Ranke
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear… — Ernst Mayr
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. — Honore de Balzac
A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such… — M.C. Escher
In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves.… — Mark Doty
In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in… — Tracy Austin
The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest,… — Ken Wilber
As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course… — Charlie Munger
Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows. — Lucian Blaga
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than… — Gene Tunney
Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and… — Albert J. Nock

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